Intensive: Plot Lab with Damon Suede

Take a deep dive into the seven universal plot points shared across all genres and media. For each plot point, Damon Suede will include an overview, narrative context, a meaty handout, examples from multiple genres, and a dollop of friendly prompting to prime the pump…followed by twenty minutes of Sprint/Pomodoro time so you can get cracking and/or ask any questions that pop up. Think of these writing sprints as mad science, a creative jungle gym, a prompt and a chance to recalibrate your process.

Want to feed the muse and keep story momentum going? Wrestling with a plotting problem? Crave creative accountability? Need a kick in the asterisk? This intensive is for plotters and pantsters excited to experiment, dig in, and write!

Our schedule is roughly 30 minutes of teaching, followed by 20 minutes of writing for each of seven plot points, over the course of two sessions. 

We'll cover:

• Plot Point: Inertia (aka Exposition, The Status Quo, Ordinary World, Opening Image)
• Plot Point: Offer…(aka the Inciting Incident, the Hook, Call to Adventure, the Catalyst)
• Plot Point: Leap…(aka the Break into 2, Commitment, Crossing the Threshold, Predicament)
• Plot Point: Reversal…(aka the Climax, Midpoint, the Inmost Cave, Point of No Return)
• Plot Point: Failure…(aka All is Lost, Black Moment, Atonement/Apotheosis, Dark Night of the Soul)
• Plot Point: Success…(aka Catastrophe, Resurrection, Confrontation, Real Solution, Finale)
• Plot Point: Reward…(aka the Denouement, HEA, Return with Elixir, Aftermath, Comeuppance)

This intensive builds on the 2-hour webinar Damon taught for us last spring: "The Genre Plot: Unpacking the Universal Truths of Narrative." We highly recommend watching the webinar before taking part in this intensive. (If you are not a member, you will receive a recording of the webinar when you sign up for the intensive.)